Midge Goldberg, “Trail Markers”
Christine Klocek-Lim, “Sometimes you don’t die”
Jane Satterfield, “Horn Dance”
Robert W. Crawford, “To Outer Space and Back” and “On First Looking Into Hubble’s Deep Field”
Jared Carter, “Andromeda” and “Sickle”
Katherine Gordon, “Aloe Vera” and “May Cause Thoughts of Doom”
J.C. Scharl, “Peredur’s Question”
Jakob Ziguras, “Seasons in Hell”
Tricia Knoll, “I Saw Winter’s Witches”
Thomas Alan Orr, “The Feast of St. Thomas on the Winter Solstice”
Christopher Childers, “O Holy Night”
Robert Wyllie, “The Conversion of the Magus”
Jean L. Kreiling, “The Mail Carrier”
Steven Peterson, “The Snow Fortress”
Alex Rettie, “That Seventies Poem”
George Lang, “Québec” and “Early or Late”
Paul J. Pastor, “Snowed In”
Clarence Caddell, “Family Reunion”
Jane Blanchard, “Eventuality”
Clive Watkins, “Earrings”
Felicity Teague, “Chess with Jimmy”
Ernest Hilbert, “Clippings” and “Pitch Meeting for Dillinger Escape Plan Part II”
Alice Allan, “Stakes” and “Bad Boys for Life”
Amit Majmudar, “Look No Further” and “To His Phone”
Aaron Poochigian, “The Sanctuary” and “Not Atoms”
Susan McLean, “Pain Management”
Debra Bruce, “You Are An Inspiration! (No, You!)”
Lisa Barnett, “Seesaw Girls” and “Kissing in Cars”
Claudia Gary, “Still Seventeen”
Jane Greer, “In none of her other ages”
Barbara Lydecker Crane, “Reverberations”
Renee Emerson, “Buying My Daughter’s Second-Hand Violin”
Kate Ravin, “Lament for Lynn”
Emily Osborne, “Electron Cloud”
Ned Balbo, “A Shimmer of Dust and Starlight”
Brian Brodeur, “Jones Very in The Parlor”
Kelly Scott Franklin, “The Ballad of Martha Hunt”
Henry Wise, “Re: The Endurance”
Mary Finnegan, “The Road of Bones”
Jianqing Zheng, “Hard Times (Cherita)” and “Waiting”
Ryan Sliwa, “The Nikon”
Cameron Brooks, “Pickup Smells”
Daniel Fitzpatrick, “Neighbors”
Shome Dasgupta, “A Louisiana Sestina”
Steven Searcy, “The Working World” and “Too Easy to Remember”
Seth Wieck, “Stratford-upon-Nothing”
Zara Raab, “Washington, D.C., The National Archives”
E.J. Hutchinson, "Real Beauty's on the Inside"
Alfred Nicol, “Wretched Rocco”
Daniel Patrick Sheehan, “The Particular Judgment”
Bethel McGrew, “Psalm of the Flood”
Laura Gee, “Emblem”
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, “Sunset in Santa Cruz, Portugal”
Sydney Lea, “Bloom”
Seiji Hakui, “Dream of an Old Fox (Based on a Folk Tale)”
Laura Nagle, a translation from the Spanish of “Autumn” by Adela Zamudio
Tim Tibbitts, a translation from the Russian of “Untitled (January 1917)” by Anna Ahkmatova
Louis Hunt, two translations from the Sanskrit of Bhartrihari
Jacob Riyeff, a translation from the Old High German of “Christ and the Samaritan Woman”
Rachel A. Lott, a translation from the German of “The Knight” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Dan Rattelle, a translation from the French of “Eurydice” by Raïssa Maritain
Cover photograph courtesy of Matthew King
Elijah Perseus Blumov, "The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New Sublime"
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